Job Description:

Clinician

Post Overdose Engagement Team (POET)

Adult Division

Agency Overview

Felton Institute responds to the needs of our community by providing innovative, evidence-informed social services that transform lives. Our organization offers 50+ programs that address mental health, the unhoused, early care and education, those impacted by the justice system, transitional age youth, as well as aging adults. Our programs combine the latest scientific research with cultural sensitivity and a deep commitment to supporting and reflecting the communities we serve. Felton offers a dynamic, challenging, and supportive work environment where we encourage the use of professional development, that staff can utilize throughout their career.

Program Description

POET is a multidisciplinary and multi-program collaboration including therapists, medical providers, peer counselors, and community partners who strategically outreach and provide on-demand treatment services to overdose survivors within the community, including shelters, street outreach, hospital outreach, and at drop-in sites throughout the city. The goal of the program is rapid connection to treatment services to stabilize the person and ongoing follow up to connect to longer term care.

Job Description

The POET Clinician is a licensed or is a BBS registered clinician with direct service experiences with individuals experiencing homelessness, substance use, mental health needs, and medical complexity. The primary functions include both direct service and interdisciplinary/multi-agency collaboration. Local travel between agency sites as well as direct service provision to program participants is expected. This position reports to the Clinical Program Manager.

Specific Responsibilities

• Provides trauma informed, culturally responsive services that include mental health services including modalities ranging harm reduction, contingency management, motivational interviewing, brief solution focused therapy, crisis intervention
• Elicits and maintains strong working relationships with clients and the care team which may include other professionals, peers, medical providers, and client identified support persons such as chosen family, friends, or others
• Facilitates and tracks linkages, care coordination, and case management among medical and community- based supports
• Outreaches to shelters, streets, hospitals, and community settings to meet clients where they are at and able to locate clients by use of electronic health record systems and planning with client
• Ensures timely and accurate documentation of all services provided and maintains applicable chart requirements
• Provides inter-agency collaboration to facilitate problem solving and clinical care
• On-call consult during working hours to triage clinical emergencies and coordination for coverage to the team
• Serve as a back-up for the team as needed
• Attend and participate in all assigned trainings for professional, program, and agency development.
• Additional duties as needed.

Qualifications

• Masters Degree (or higher) in Social Sciences, Psychology, Counseling Psychology or related field AND current California State Licensure or registered as an associate. One year post-graduate experience in similar setting preferred
• Two years of experience providing mental health services to individuals with serious mental health challenges, substance use, and homelessness
• Experience with specific modalities harm reduction, contingency management, substance use disorder treatment, crisis intervention, de-escalation, and motivational interviewing
• Outreach in settings that include shelters, street encampments, SROs, hospitals, and other areas as assigned
• Charting and documentation experience under insurance payors such as medi-care, medi-cal, and special population funding
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft applications, phone based applications, and navigating EHR systems
• required (EPIC and CIRCE experience preferred)
• Bi-lingual in threshold languages strongly preferred (Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Russian, Tagolog)

Competencies

• Strong working knowledge of mental health and substance use disorders with DSM diagnostic skills (clinical interviewing, assessment, structured diagnostic tools where appropriate, and use of available medical records to inform assessment)
• Ability to provide psycho-education to clients and consultation to community partners to support the client in their recovery process
• Effective triaging skills to prioritize work based on risk and client need; crisis intervention skills
• Demonstrated ability to establish trusting, hopeful relationships with clients and community supports
• with respect of differences of opinion, beliefs, culture, appearances and ways of life.
• Strong knowledge of county behavioral health department and community resources for linkage support
• Interdisciplinary team effectiveness, including providing, receiving, and integrating performance, quality, and best practices feedback in to care provision
• Good negotiation and problem-solving skills in addition to verbal de-escalation skills
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
• Adaptable, open to change, and able to tolerate ambiguity.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to prioritize tasks, and manage time effectively.
• Demonstrated experience as a team player with a welcoming attitude.
• Knowledge of County, State and Federal requirements for documentation and reporting, including Medi- Cal/Medi- Care standards, CPT codes, etc.

Additional Information:

Reports to: Director of Adult and TAY Mental Health Services

Job Type: Full-Time

Work Schedule: Onsite

FLSA Status: Exempt

Salary Range: 110,000-112,000 USD Annually (DOE)

Benefits (subject to election and eligibility): Fully-Paid Medical and Dental Plans; Health Reimbursement Card, Paid Time Off (personal, vacation, and sick time), 403B with company match.

Applying Instruction:

Candidates should apply for the position at our career page careers.felton.org OR directly email resumes to

IMP NOTE: Job responsibilities are subject to change according to program requirements.